What was your favorite or worst job before starting your business? 🔥

[isabelle]

Heyyy Seller Community! ⚡️

Today we're wondering...

What was your favorite or worst job before starting your own business? 🔥 

I know mine 🤫 

Can't wait to read your replies! 👀 

[mksavage]

Ooooh, great question! There were aspects of many of my jobs that I really loved -- nannying, waitressing, being a project manager, coordinating triathlons. I think if I had to choose one, it would be project manager. I got to work with some really great people, and I enjoyed the closure of seeing a project through from conception to completion. It was incredibly satisfying! 

[Bronze_Palms]

I worked 11 part time jobs before switching into my career, then owning a business. I found that I didn't enjoy the work at restaurants but, regardless of where I was, if I liked the people I worked with, it really impacted how long I worked there for.

Favorite job was working events at Sherwood Country Club in Malibu.

[rtfulk]

My worse job was Produce Manger in a grocery store, I was manager way before scanners were around everything had to be rung up on a cash register and priced and if it was a price change labels had to be scraped off and repriced. Then you had to constantly work with the cashiers to make sure produce items got rung up in produce, if not inventory would be a total wreck and when I mean wreck I mean our bonuses were based on monthly profit. If items were getting rung up as grocery dept. or some other dept. you lost that sale and in turn you lost part of your bonus.

[snip_n_clips]

I loved working at Sport clips before I opened my salon. The worst job I ever had was at a restaurant.

[sirsspremiums]

Janitorial was the worst job for me.

[MG10]

My favorite job was create websites. 

[SavageFitnessBC]

One of my most favorite jobs was working at Starbucks.  It was my first job after taking a year off and after working for an awful person.  My manager made the transition back to work life, easier.

[GourmetOnWheels]

My worst job was working for a French owned record label. The owner was impossible to deal with.

The worst thing was he brought in cardboard digi-packs world music that was made in France with artists from Africa and modern instruments it was nothing like Putamayo or Real World and he insisted that they would fly out the stores at 24.99

We all said that's crazy, it should be 3.99 then it will sell like hotcakes.He asked if he could have 5 minutes at the BMG sales meeting

Has was allowed so he went in with me played it send send the packing around the room of 24 sales reps and the he asked them how much it should retail for.

They all said 3.99 or 4.99 he went crazy three the cd's around and screamed you are all out of your mind. t should be 24.99 To which then sales manager said  we will not get any sales at 24.99, what goes out will come back in returns.

He left, I did my sales meeting and after it I told him in no uncertain words he is crazy and I quit now

René 

[mksavage]

Ooooh, what an interesting question!

My worst was ironically working for this nonprofit that equipped amputees in developing countries with lightweight, durable prosthetics. The mission was incredible, but the company was incredibly dysfunctional and the leadership was borderline abusive. It was so stressful.

Best job... well, I look back very fondly on my time waitressing at an Irish Pub. It was fast-paced and insane most of the time, which I loved, and I got to work with some great people. Being the Interim Marketing Director at the El Paso Zoo was also pretty cool, and definitely unique! 

[Bronze_Palms]

My favorite job was at Coldstone Creamery lol I learned how to make ice cream, hung out with all of my friends, had a decent amount of responsibility and made good money.